As part of his reply he might add that because it can not be sensed it is not a piece of knowledge. After being enlightened by the above proposed argument, though, that same materialist is logically forced to agree that, because the "material substratum1" itself can not be sensed, its existence can not be treated as knowledge. ... This is logical, for sensations can not be felt by mindless objects. ... However, this can not be the case. ... However, when the museum closes and the person goes home, does the artwork continue to exist? ...

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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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Thus we then can move into the idea of human freedom and discuss how we may be free. ... If we were never introduced to the idea, can there ever be? ... And we are free because with our mind we can invent all kinds of technical means for all kinds of circumstances so that we can survive nearly everywhere. ... They can discover that relation by accident or we can teach them the trick, but that is something different than understanding. ... Monkeys can use tools, can even discover them when they already exist, but cannot invent them, I think. ...

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Victor feels as though everything in his life has been destroyed and that leaving home is just another step in the wrong direction. ... In Ingolstadt, Victor continues to isolate himself, begins a manic pursuit to gain knowledge only in areas that he can relate to his desire to renew life. ... He describes his work as a storm, "no one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards like a hurricane" (58); Victor expresses the extent of his mania, the conflicting feelings that swirl around inside him, the turmoil they cause. ... Darkness can be linked to the time spent in the wom...

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He opens his famous Meditations on First Philosophy by declaring his intention to suspend every one of his beliefs that he can find the slightest reason to doubt. Only those beliefs that are absolutely certain, in the strongest sense of the term, will survive Descartes' test, and only such beliefs, he holds, can serve as truly reliable foundations for science. Now when you look out your window you see what you expect to be seen, the road, sidewalk, streetlight, trees, and etc only with suspending your beliefs can you realize that, are you absolutely sure of what you see out the window...

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Without having to watch what they say for fear of offending people's cultural sensibilities (which are created by males anyway i.e. supposedly for the female gender's own good... but it is for the excuse that men 'cannot control themselves when it comes to sex and lust, etc') And this is exactly what this young woman is doing, she asserts her physical presence in public space (on the rooftops where people can see her) and just by doing that she makes a social statement for women's right to be whatever/whoever/doing anything they want. She raises the position of women ...

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